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[WildBlueBalls]

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 1582 Kbps about 1.6 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 193 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/09/29 - 10:29am
Bottom Line:: 28X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 5.31 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 15.492 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 10.71 % faster than the average for host (wildblue.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-WKFQ70HS2
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1) [!]

:::.. Upload Stats ..:::
Upload Connection is:: 256 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 31 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/09/29 - 10:17am
Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 33.03 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 95.707 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 132.73 % faster than the average for host (wildblue.net)
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-63Y29KSF5
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1) [!]

Ping statistics for 72.14.207.99:
    Packets: Sent = 99, Received = 98, Lost = 1 (1% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 1126ms, Maximum = 2968ms, Average = 1369ms   

Good news...latency has improved over the last week approximately 300ms and DL and UL performing at maximum speeds! Bad news...latency still sucks compared to the 700ms I expected when I purchased WB. 

[WildBlueBalls]

Ping statistics for 128.172.188.188:
    Packets: Sent = 119, Received = 115, Lost = 4 (3% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 623ms, Maximum = 2991ms, Average = 1327ms

9:15pm EST on Thursday, 10/4/07.  Hmmmm the minimum has decreased but average is consistent with last reading.

[justinlay]

You getin some pretty good speeds there!! Yah the latency is horrible, but thats with any sat service

[WildBlueBalls]

Yes, but I was hoping for reasonable latency for satellite somewhere in the range of 600 -800 ms.  Gaining an extra half second from where I am now would be real nice!  I really feel the pain when dealing with IMAP and HTTPS.  But wow do my downloads fly compared to dial-up.

All in all...I would say I am extremely satisfied.  I am paying $79/month for the pro package but I get $10 knocked off for coupling my bill with Direct TV.  I was paying $20/mos for two dial-up connections along with $35/mos for callwave, a landline, and the call forward on busy feature.  Therefore, I am actually paying $14 extra per month to have excellent DL(30x faster)/UL(I think landline is faster than 56k), and the ability to connect throughout my home via a wireless router.

[troubles]

Latency speeds are normally high with any satelite. Yes it cost a lot of money to have the service. But for those who have to have it, If your not getting a good signal, have them come re-peak and point your antenna. Most time that's all you need done to have a stronger signal.

They have a thing now that if you pay 119.00 they will come out and check your service and replace anything that is not up to par for the next 90 days at no extra charge.

[RyanS]

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Latency speeds are normally high with any satelite. Yes it cost a lot of money to have the service. But for those who have to have it, If your not getting a good signal, have them come re-peak and point your antenna. Most time that's all you need done to have a stronger signal.

They have a thing now that if you pay 119.00 they will come out and check your service and replace anything that is not up to par for the next 90 days at no extra charge.

good advice.

and WELCOME to the forum. 

[troubles]

Thank You for the welcome..

[WildBlueBalls]

2:40 pm EST Tuesday

Ping statistics for 64.233.187.99:
    Packets: Sent = 72, Received = 71, Lost = 1 (1% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 715ms, Maximum = 2661ms, Average = 1258ms

Getting a little better on average.

[Basil]

More consistent is the term I'd use.

Start: 10/16/07   6:39:34 PM 
PING from: 192.168.2.2
       to: 64.233.187.99 (64.233.187.99) Every 500 mSecs
PKT# RESULT  TIME(ms) LENGTH     Min     Avg     Max  Timestamp

    1 success     1215     40    1215    1215    1215  10/16/07   6:39:35 PM 
    2 success     1309     40    1215    1262    1309  10/16/07   6:39:37 PM 
    3 success     1165     40    1165    1229    1309  10/16/07   6:39:38 PM 
    4 success     1222     40    1165    1227    1309  10/16/07   6:39:39 PM 
    5 success     1490     40    1165    1280    1490  10/16/07   6:39:41 PM 
    6 success     1196     40    1165    1266    1490  10/16/07   6:39:42 PM 
    7 success     1169     40    1165    1252    1490  10/16/07   6:39:43 PM 
    8 success     1212     40    1165    1247    1490  10/16/07   6:39:45 PM 

Packets out/in/bad/%loss = 8/8/0/0.0
Round Trip Time (ms) min/avg/max = 1165/1247/1490
• Ping Completed 10/16/07   6:39:45 PM   •

[Basil]

. . . and the speeds for prime time are decent.
[value-beam 35]

:::.. Upload Stats ..:::
Upload Connection is:: 111 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 14 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/10/16 - 4:44pm
Bottom Line:: 2X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 73.14 sec
Tested from a 579 kB file and took 42.717 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay : running at 99.11 % of your hosts average (wildblue.net)
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-I1BY52UGM
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3 [!]

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 581 Kbps about 0.6 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)
Download Speed is:: 71 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/10/16 - 4:45pm
Bottom Line:: 10X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 14.42 sec
Tested from a 1013 kB file and took 14.3 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 43.95 % of your hosts average (wildblue.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-HPBKJZSMO
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3 [!]

P.S. I use relatively small files to mirror my real life usage.

[tupurr]

:::.. Upload Stats ..:::
Upload Connection is:: 205 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 25 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/10/17 - 12:16am
Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 40.96 sec
Tested from a 579 kB file and took 23.123 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 4.59 % faster than the average for host (smartbro.net)
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-YI1FMQLDB
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7 [!]


:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 425 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Download Speed is:: 52 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/10/17 - 12:21am
Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 19.69 sec
Tested from a 386 kB file and took 7.451 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 61.33 % of your hosts average (241.202)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-3LN68TVX5
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7 [!]

[tupurr]

Ping statistics for 64.233.187.99:
    Packets: Sent = 4 Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 347ms, Maximum = 362ms, Average = 355ms

[justinlay]

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::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Upload Connection is:: 205 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 25 kB/s

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Ping statistics for 64.233.187.99:
    Packets: Sent = 4 Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 347ms, Maximum = 362ms, Average = 355ms

Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/10/17 - 12:16am
Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 40.96 sec
Tested from a 579 kB file and took 23.123 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 4.59 % faster than the average for host (smartbro.net)
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-YI1FMQLDB
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7


::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 425 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Download Speed is:: 52 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/10/17 - 12:21am
Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 19.69 sec
Tested from a 386 kB file and took 7.451 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 61.33 % of your hosts average (241.202)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-3LN68TVX5
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

Not bad speeds for smartbro, but this thread is for wildblue users

[Basil]

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, . . . . but this thread is for wildblue users

We can use all the help we can get! 

[WildBlueBalls]

"P.S. I use relatively small files to mirror my real life usage."

Interesting...so a 100 kbps upload speed using a smaller file represents a realistic measure because it factors in the lag more appropriately???


I guess I like to see the larger file upload speed because it indicates to me that I am capable of reaching speeds that I am paying for.   Am I right in what I am thinking.

[tommie gorman]

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They have a thing now that if you pay 119.00 they will come out and check your service and replace anything that is not up to par for the next 90 days at no extra charge.

If you did not have Hughes for very long you would be still under warranty for things like that. That could be a bummer. So that is how WIld Blue does it then?

[terridavis]

What's weird is how much faster my test is when I'm using AOL. they are both going through Wildblue, but I get about half the speed on Internet Explorer alone


:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 3373 Kbps about 3.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 412 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/10/24 - 3:23pm
Bottom Line:: 59X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.49 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 7.266 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 56.79 % of your hosts average (aol.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-MWVYO78F0
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; AOL 9.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts) [!]

[tommie gorman]

Thats because AOL does not give real speeds. It is cached. Meaing like it is in the memory and just reloading the page. Instead of downloading for real.

That is why when you go to test it says turn off all accelerators before testing.

So you get the real speeds. Try AOL on a page you have never been to before. It will be slow again. 

I would never have AOL anything on my computer. 

[terridavis]

Thanks for the info.  I only use it  now because I started out with them as my email and have too many customers with that address to change.  I try to stay outside of it and just check my email from Explorer, but the convenience of just clicking the mouse always draws me back

[terridavis]

here's what I get outside of AOL.  From what I'm understanding, I'm still slower than I should be, but it's faster that my son-in-law's who has HughesNet


:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 1004 Kbps about 1 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)
Download Speed is:: 123 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2007/10/24 - 3:37pm
Bottom Line:: 18X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 8.33 sec
Tested from a 1013 kB file and took 8.265 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 77.59 % of your hosts average (wildblue.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-OQI078YXP
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts) [!]